Chris Rock Quotes

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

Well I was much too practical to presume to have a career in comedy.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

As soon as I realized you could be funny as a job, that was the job I wanted.

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

Basically I wanted to be a male comedian; those were my idols.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at one point. I never made it; I was never a headliner. I never made enough time to write enough good material, in my opinion.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.